Lisa

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Women don't see men the way men want to be seen. They see all the tender places, all the places where they blood could flow.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“Both clung to a fantasy rather than to each other, tried to suck pleasure from the crannies of the mind, rather than surrender the secrets of the body.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.”
― James Baldwin